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Alexis and Ashley made some specials like this, but not with those fins to my knowledge

Berkeley is the best guess for the rounded shape, but tales of a hard-top for these are thin on the ground

It does look bloody familiar but looking at other photos of what I suspect it is reveals a detail that procludes it. The 2000 was quite a large car, and the sportster on tow doesn't look small enough to be one of these British babies.

Feast on this cack, driven by some lovely people who wouldn't let the learner pass therefore helping all the cars behind who had pulled over to let them reverse enjoy the sunshine while they called the police!!! I suggested the police might ask them to do the same as everyone else had just done and let the learner pass
around the corner from the Racing BMW, might be related
Prefect
Interceptor
Alfa
Vitesse

this batch was after a 2500 mile trip around France and into Italy starting with bike shite in Nice
a gorgeous Honda CB350 Four
and a lovely Honda Dax 70
then normal shite

an H!

Then in Italy I spotted this wee truck, is it a Piaggio?

Then on my way from Nice to Cannes I stopped at this Museum I've passed loads of times
worth a visit for this Alpine based on the Renault 4CV
and this mock up of an early French garage with two Salmsons and a Terrot motorcycle

less than 100 yds away was this Simca truck

then I spotted some scrap yards so had a wander with my camera
a 21 Ambulance on its final journey

on the N10 near Angouleme
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in the same yard a 4CV and a woods full of 20's
http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/8014784684250ed2260ac62e3c99600ec06c2bbb1e83d034ef8dd32fdaf0fad86f713647.jpg
http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/615015440337c452352f2a8cddeeec89f937b04ba719ce37296fc9d61e2c7d74ab57ed29.jpg

Then cross country to Deux Sevres
http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/63772867ebaf54e337af727a09f296ebbcdde5f262ad611cb75ba913ef8faea5a1b99d38.jpg
http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/103590983cad82203019c50e64a74a88a90b29899b2f85b1595e5234875942cda711c54c.jpg

Then to Chef Boutonne where I pottered around on my mates UK Mobylette
http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/50097288bd6a0e8c5bcca27bbb341d23972d9c763e85c2f23468bacf897e02ffa4ebf249.jpg

and spotted a barn with a Panhard, a duo of 15/17's and a 203 I could barely see
http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/69822345e355d85689558500153e0fbe6f463b9880c84e5724e44d398618707a56035bbc.jpg

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/11379482e ... 6a89ee.jpg

this has been sat in a field for a couple of years
http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/31339585bf351b8b7f73c822437479337bb077be04bc4d8d9a617d09eaf1998c1399e30d.jpg

The local garage, very interesting out the back but no camera that time
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This tiny windscreen belongs to the tiniest microcar in France!
http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/646865466e6c9b1674ae4e8dae39b739bcf66fed3dbaa6d8fd98b20e2be7566c068d8d84.jpg

the bike is a Kawasaki W650 and the Elswick is a Mini in different clothes prototyped as a Mini replacement and then produced as an Invalid Carriage for the cool, it's in Hackney just off Kingsland Road

Wow. What a selection. I think the white microcar is an early-mid '80s Aixam - probably with a single cyinder Lombardini diesel as I think they'd stopped using Mobylette engines by then ( ). Don't quote me on that though as although the shape says Aixam the ones I've seen have had different rear lights to that one. They never imported the 324 and 524 diesels to the UK, for the simple reason that they were crap and would therefore have clashed horribly with BMW's yuppie image. In France the marque image is not quite the same (although they are still a class above the Fords and Opels) and the French have a bit of a fetish about diesels, but even then they didn't sell particularly well there, because of the general crapness of the engine. For a time they did a 324D, without a turbo, which has to be the slowest BMW since the Isetta.

Awesome pics! Agree that France is great - unlike Munich which I visited earlier this week and spotted very little, 'cept for loads more Frogface Scorpios than you might credit in such a wealthy area, and a brace of Trabants. No pics unless I can work out how to get them off my work mobile

For a time they did a 324D, without a turbo, which has to be the slowest BMW since the Isetta.

I somehow doubt that! My Dad once had a 1977 E12 518 automatic. It had 90 bhp, felt like it weighed as much as a Tiger tank and could hardly drag itself down the road. If you clogged it from a standstill in 'D' it would do nothing for about a second before lumbering off at walking pace, which made roundabouts rather worrying. Perversely, it was also equipped with the most powerful brakes of any car I've ever driven!